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Rochet vs Cassock - What's the difference?

rochet | cassock |

As nouns the difference between rochet and cassock

is that rochet is a white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the anglican church or rochet can be a fish, the red gurnard while cassock is (obsolete) a military cloak or long coat worn by soldiers or horsemen in the 16th and 17th centuries.

rochet

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, iv:
  • *:Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white, / The bishops don'd their albes and copes of state, // Above their rochets button'd fair before, / And mitres on their heads like crowns they wore.
  • *(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • *:They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet .
  • A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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  • Etymology 2

    Probably corrupted from (etyl) rouget.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the red gurnard.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    cassock

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cassock) (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A military cloak or long coat worn by soldiers or horsemen in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • (obsolete) A coarse, loose cloak or gown, worn by women, sailors, shepherds, countryfolk etc.
  • An item of clerical clothing: a long, sheath-like, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clergy members of some Christian denominations.
  • *, chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
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  • Coordinate terms

    (items of Christian clerical clothing) * alb * epigonation * epimanikion * epitrachelion * maniple * mitre * omophorion * rhason * sakkos * sticharion * zone

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